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harsh

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Registered: 2024-07-31

Posts: 4

[SOLVED] Trouble installing nvidia drivers for GT710 GPU

Hello everyone this is my first time posting after struggling for the last 3 days trying to install nvidia GT710 drivers.

GT710 is from the Kepler series. I found it from this post https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=276557
addresses very similar problem but didn't help me.

i'm using:
yay instead of pacman

i have installed:

nvidia-470xx-dkms and nvidia-470xx-settings 

after a reboot i'm still looking at a low res screen and my graphics drivers are not detected.

running:

nvidia-smi

gives the following output:

NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

running:

pacman -Qs nvidia

gives the following output:

local/egl-wayland 3:1.1.13-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/libvdpau 1.5-3
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl-470xx 470.256.02-3
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/nvidia-470xx-dkms 470.256.02-6
    NVIDIA drivers - module sources
local/nvidia-470xx-settings 470.256.02-3
    Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
local/nvidia-470xx-settings-debug 470.256.02-3
    Detached debugging symbols for nvidia-470xx-settings
local/nvidia-470xx-utils 470.256.02-6
    NVIDIA drivers utilities

as you can see the drivers are installed but still the things not running.

running lspci -k gives:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device 36f7
	Kernel modules: nouveau

also there is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-configure.conf file.

i tried to install manjaro(KDE) on the same system yesterday and it was working fine and it was using the 470.xx nvidia drivers.

Any help is really appreciated thanks.

Last edited by harsh (2024-07-31 09:02:32)

harsh

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Registered: 2024-07-31

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble installing nvidia drivers for GT710 GPU

ok i finally got it working just went on chat gpt and ran the commands it gave me, gotta love llm now.
commands i ran:

yay -R nvidia-470xx-dkms and nvidia-470xx-settings 
yay -S linux-headers
yay -S nvidia-470xx-dkms
sudo nvim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
# add these lines in the blacklist files
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
sudo nvim /etc/modules-load.d/nvidia.conf
# this is to load the nivdia drivers
nvidia
nvidia_modset
nvidia_uvm
nvidia_drm

sudo reboot

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,146

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble installing nvidia drivers for GT710 GPU

yay -S linux-headers

Those headers only work if you're running the stock archlinux kernel.
Did the bot ask you which kernel you used ?

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 60,378

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble installing nvidia drivers for GT710 GPU

sudo nvim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
# add these lines in the blacklist files
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0

1. "man sudoedit"
2. the nvidia-utils packages blacklist nouveau anyway

# this is to load the nivdia drivers

nvidia and nvidia_drm get pulled by the modprobe alias, for nvidia_modeset please enable https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … de_setting (preferably use the "nvidia_drm.modeset=1" kernel parameter), nvidia_uvm is for CUDA

=> Installing the linux headers was the only necessary step in that list.

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 12,242

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble installing nvidia drivers for GT710 GPU

=> Installing the linux headers was the only necessary step in that list.

And that step was covered in the wiki (Note: When installing dkms, read Dynamic Kernel Module Support#Installation.) and by the optional deps pacman printed when the dkms package was installed.

harsh, you should really delete those extra files you created.

Last edited by Scimmia (2024-07-31 14:45:54)

harsh

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Registered: 2024-07-31

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble installing nvidia drivers for GT710 GPU

Thanks for the help everyone also
@Scimmia delete which files i only created the:
- blacklist-nouveau.conf
- nvidia.conf

harsh

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Registered: 2024-07-31

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble installing nvidia drivers for GT710 GPU

@Lone_wolf
Yes the bot asked me which kernel i use
uname -r and it game 6.10.2-arch1-1

Last edited by harsh (2024-08-03 06:31:38)

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Trouble installing nvidia drivers for GT710 GPU

Then the bot did avoid one pitfall, although the answer is still too generic for my taste .

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 12,242

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble installing nvidia drivers for GT710 GPU

Thanks for the help everyone also
@Scimmia delete which files i only created the:
- blacklist-nouveau.conf
- nvidia.conf

Yes, those.